Police solve gun house burglary case, 2 arrested

Amritsar, March 6

With the arrest of two persons after giving a chase for over 1000 km across five states, the city police on Wednesday claimed to have solved the Royal Gun House burglary case. Unidentified persons had decamped with 12 firearms, ammunition and cash from the gun house on the intervening night of February 21 and 22.

Those arrested were identified as Ajit Singh, alias Golu (19), a resident of Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, who is currently residing at Kot Harnam Das here and Mandeep Kumar, alias Vada, of (20) of Khaparkheri village in Amritsar rural area here.

Police Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said the police recovered nine double barrel guns, three pump action guns, 21 cartridges and a sharp weapon from their possession. He said around 10 police teams chased the accused across five states/UTs before they were nabbed after technical and scientific investigations.

“The police teams investigated the blind case and followed the trail of accused persons, who fled from Punjab the same day fearing arrest and went to Chandigarh, Panipat, Delhi, Agra, Ayodhya and Haryana/UP areas before returning to Amritsar,” he said.

They had concealed the weapons and ammunition by digging a pit adjoining railway tracks near the vegetable market at Vallah. He said accused Ajit Kumar had also stolen 4.2 kg gold from the area under the B Division Amritsar police station along with his accomplices in October 2023. He came out on bail in December.

Investigation revealed that Ajit was duped by a woman from Panipat of a huge amount and he wanted to take his revenge on her. The Police Commissioner said his links with criminal elements, gangsters or drug traffickers were also being ascertained. He said as per the owner of the gun house, some of the stolen arms had come for repair. He said they would be brought on police remand for further interrogation.